Startup Intros · Jul 2026
Third-party company profile covering ThirdLayer’s founders, product, market positioning, and funding/team context; useful as an independent summary of the company’s positioning and growth.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
ThirdLayer is the company behind Dex, a browser-native AI coworker / context engine for knowledge work. Public sources disagree on exact funding totals; the company and LinkedIn pages report $125K seed funding, while some third-party databases estimate more.
Primary product
Dex
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI agent infrastructure / browser copilot
Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2025
Latest amount
$125K
Mar 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Deeply technical, research-led, and high-bar; the team emphasizes building at the frontier of AI, HCI, and agent infrastructure, with small-team execution and advisors/collaborators from MIT Media Lab, Stanford SAIL, Berkeley BAIR, Sakana AI, DeepMind, and Eleven Labs.
Compensation
YC job postings show a full-time role at $130K-$250K salary plus 0.50%-2.00% equity, with internships posted at $6K-$10K/month; another role is listed at $5.2K-$10.4K/month.
Benefits
Pricing
Subscription tiers with custom enterprise/full-service pricing; team/enterprise motion is flat-rate rather than seat-based.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Startup Intros · Jul 2026
Third-party company profile covering ThirdLayer’s founders, product, market positioning, and funding/team context; useful as an independent summary of the company’s positioning and growth.
ThirdLayer on LinkedIn · Jun 2026
ThirdLayer announced Telegram integration and said Dex now has 35 tools to read, search, and act on Telegram, extending its workflow automation across chats, CRM updates, follow-ups, and search.
First Commit / Castro · Jun 2026
Podcast interview with Regina Lin on Dex, the browser-based AI workspace, including the company’s origin story, the pivot inside YC, and why Dex uses browser context plus direct tool calling instead of MCP-only approaches.
ThirdLayer on LinkedIn · Jun 2026
ThirdLayer announced a broader Gmail capability set, describing inbox triage, context-aware drafting, CRM sync, lead recovery, and personalized outreach based on connected context across tools.
ThirdLayer on LinkedIn · Mar 2026
ThirdLayer launched custom agents/automations that run in the background on schedules or events, with examples spanning call briefs, post-meeting follow-ups, Slack notes, inbox triage, and CRM sync.